About
Born and bred in the industrial wastelands of New Jersey, Darren honed his craft with budget gear, transforming the guitar into any sound but the guitar. Today he has become a virtuoso with strings - fretless bass, guitar, ukelele and an appreciation for DSP and granular synthesis have carved his sound into a lush wall of Thousands of harmonics bouncing off of nickel wound copper strings, amplified by magnets and funneled through analog malfunctions.
Heavily influenced by forward thinking artists from Brian Eno to Richard D. James, a lifelong love of ambient and experimental music as well as finely crafted pop - his solo work as well as his contributions to The Wretch highlight his true skill in sound design while forming meaningful, melodic passages. His drive to find new, organic sounds from real sources has sent him backward, reveling in the ideas of studios of days-gone-by, of happy accidents, of letting the sounds be themselves (to paraphrase John Cage). His new works merge the idea of the finely crafted, timeless song structure, the sound of real instruments really being played, with the duality of mangling and morphing said sounds with new technology, creating breathing beings with a life of their own.